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Available until 04/13/2028 An episode of the documentary series Les Idées grandes with Laura Raim, to be found here https://shorturl.at/dfIN2 With Isabelle Coutant and Yvon Atonga Each era has its clichés about more or less delinquent youth gangs. After the black jackets of the 50s, there were the thugs of the 70s, and since the 80s, the media have been talking about “young people from the estates”. But what has become of these young people fifteen years later? Yvon Atonga grew up in the estate, in Villiers le Bel. He did his share of “stupid things”, as he says, but today he is an executive at the SNCF. He tells his story in a book called “Petit frère, comprendre les destins familiaux” (Seuil, 2024). He needed to write this book after his little brother Wilfried was murdered in 2016 in a settling of scores. Yvon was haunted by a question: why didn't his brother escape the trouble while he succeeded? To help him answer it, he called on Isabelle Coutant, a sociologist and research director at the CNRS. She had met his brother in the early 2000s, as part of her thesis on juvenile delinquency. How can you escape the attraction of "street culture"? Why does one sibling survive and the other doesn't? Can you leave the ghetto? References: Yvon Atonga, Isabelle Coutant, Little Brother, Understanding Family Destinies, Seuil, 2024 Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations, Paris, Seuil, 1997 Pierre Bourdieu, The Misery of the World, Seuil, 1993, Stéphane Beaud, The France of the Belhoumis. Family Portraits (1977-2017), La Découverte, 2018 David Lepoutre, Heart of the Suburbs. Codes, Rites and Languages, Odile Jacob, 1997 Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect, Crack in New York, Seuil, 2013 Howard Becker, Outsiders, 1963 Gérard Mauger, Gangs, the Underworld and Popular Bohemia, Study of the Sociology of Deviance in Young People from the Working Classes (1975-2005), Belin, 2006 #delinquency #arte Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social media! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr